Indah Jamtani

BACKGROUND: Abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) is the most common extra-pelvic endometriosis encountered. Between 30% and 40% of AWE cases are umbilical endometriosis (UE), also known as Villar’s nodule. This is a rare form of endometriosis…

Bowel endometriosis, defined as presence of endometrial tissue infiltrating the intestinal muscularis propria layer and beyond (3), has a sigmoid colon and rectal predilection. We collected 170 cases of endometriosis within the timeline, ou…